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Sentences starting with stay

Stay and talk; you must tell me everything that's said and done --and about the stranger. [11]
Stay and receive them, dear, while I--(Leaving. [5]
Stay here and save our precious lives, if you can, or at least put us through in the proper way, so that we needn't be ashamed of ourselves for dying, if we must die. [6]
Stay till ye're rested, and come back to us. [9]
Stay with us,--there's plenty of time. [9]
Stay with my people till sundown, but you must keep your own counsel, for they are all listeners and blabs. [10]
Stay over Monday if the weather is good. [4]
Stay here, even if it is only a few days longer. [10]
Stay with us; I have long had a fancy to eat vegetables of my own growing. [10]
Stay here with him in this filthy place until he gets tired of you and throws you out on the street? [9]

Sentences ending with stay

My umbrella is with the baggage, and so are my green spectacles--and there they shall stay. [5]
But has the whistling woman come to stay? [4]
Strive for that which is wanting to you--the strength to subdue, to crush for One--and you know that One--all things else--even the misguiding voice of your heart, the treacherous voice of your judgment.--But stay! [10]
Thou art safe whether to go or to stay. [11]
When m'sieu' got well, he say, 'I will not go from Chaudiere; I will stay. [11]
We will stay!--yes, we will stay! [10]
As I too was now preparing to retire, which methought but seemly Aunt Jacoba beckoned me to stay. [10]
Now that he was here, where was he to stay? [9]
Why should the tongue and the palate--But stay! [10]
It is put together in solid blocks of honest brick and stone, and has the air of intending to stay. [5]

Short sentences using stay

I'd certainly stay with you. [2]
Wilt thou stay with me? [11]
We'll stay, won't we? [5]
We'll stay, won't we, Huck? [5]
Then stay with us. [10]
Here we wished to stay. [4]
But I want to stay! [13]
Why didn't they stay? [5]
That's why I stay. [9]
I mean to stay. [5]

Sentences containing stay two or more times

Then, Charmian, stay, stay under any circumstances, cling to her more firmly than ever, for then, then, my sister, she will be more wretched--ten, a hundred fold more wretched than if Octavianus deprives her of everything, perhaps even life itself. [10]
They were to stay ten or fourteen days, he said, but an effort would be made to have them stay over July 4th. [5]
So that's why I left, and that's why I stay here, and that's why I'm going to stay here, Mona. [11]
When he recovered his composure, he exclaimed: "Lips shall stay, you rogues; he shall stay! [10]
Uncle Jethro wished her to stay and to learn to be a lady, and stay she would, in spite of Miss Broke and the rest of them. [9]
Stay you quietly at B., till you go to S., as I shall stay at Haworth; as sincere a farewell can be taken with the heart as with the lips, and perhaps less painful. [14]
You will stay, Antonio, you will stay. [10]

More example sentences with the word stay in them

If you pull your trunk out six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you open it, they always shove that trunk back again. [5]
Do you believe your Meisterschaft will stay with you, Annie? [5]
Guida, ma couzaine, you'll stay here, in the land of your birth. [11]
If you go you will reach the priest, if you stay here where I shall leave you, you will see me taken perhaps, and it may be fightin' or death; but you will be safe with them. [11]
I would ask you to stay to the dance to-night if your skin were only white, instead of red. [9]
But I've known you since you were so high, and I knew your father; he used to stay weeks on my plantation when we were both younger. [4]
No matter where you put anything, they are not going to let it stay there. [5]
Take any road you please, you may depend upon it you will not stay in it half a mile. [5]
There, now, if you please, go before me, and let me stay here alone a little while. [10]
You must live, you must not die; for see, Publius here asks me to be his wife, and the Immortals only can know how glad I am to go with him, and Irene is to stay with us, and be my sister and his. [10]
I have asked you a great many questions and you have not hesitated to answer, and you may know how I got into this miserable cage and why I stay in it. [10]
The first two years of his stay he had plenty to do. [11]
I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more. [5]
And if he would take her forth, give me alarm in the room opposite yonder door, and stay them, and--" "Stay them, holy Mother, at the price of my life. [11]
I wish it would stay with the other animals. [5]
No, no, you would not stay here. [11]
Sometimes this log would lodge, and stay right across our nose, and back the Mississippi up before it; we would have to do a little craw-fishing, then, to get away from the obstruction. [5]
Many a person would be afraid to stay there, even half an hour, when the mountain quakes, the ashes fall in showers, and the glowing lava pours out in a stream. [10]
I callate you won't stay with him a great while. [9]
I cannot stay with you--truly I cannot, I have been expected long since. [10]
I should stay with Uncle Jethro. [9]
He was cross with the stupid old man (as he called Rostov), who had made him stay by assuring him that some necessary documents had not yet arrived from town, and he was vexed with himself for having stayed. [2]
His official relations with the Foreign Office were courteous and agreeable, the successive Foreign Ministers during his stay being Count Richberg, Count Mensdorff, and Baron Beust. [6]
I will stay with Mr. Bentley to-night, and leave for New York to-morrow, to do what I have to do--and then you will be ready for me. [9]
Will you go with me, or stay here? [11]
You must stay with me for the present, and not go to your mother till I have settled everything that is necessary. [10]
You're to stay with him till I come again. [9]
I had cantered with her that morning from Wilmot House to Mr. Lloyd's, and thence to Carvel Hall, where she was to stay to dinner. [9]
Better stay behind with Gran'pa Ripley till I kin fetch ye both. [9]
He did not wish to stay another day in Moscow. [2]
By the open window at the foot of a bed in the Stay Awhile Hospital a woman gazed into the saffron splendour with an intentness which seemed to make all her body listen. [11]
Go whither you will, stay away even if I send for you; but"--and here his brow clouded again--"why should I try to be merciful to her from whom I looked for sympathy and kindliness, when she flees from me like the rest? [10]
Maybe, its look will stay, for him to see when he comes. [11]
You and I will stay here until we are old enough to run away to Kentucky. [9]
I hope it will come soon, and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. [7]
He knew now why he had come to town; he also knew why he must not stay, or, if staying, what must be his course. [11]
One big fellow who was leaning against a lamp-post growled, 'You'd better stay in your own palace, miss, and not come prying round here. [4]
There were circumstances which made it necessary for me to stay through the hour hours to the end, and I stayed; but the recollection of that long, dragging, relentless season of suffering is indestructible. [5]
You'll stay right where you are! [5]
Uarda may stay where she is, and I will help you. [10]
But to stay where he was, and endure this living death all night--was that better? [5]
If he stay where he is, fret him and fret him. [7]
So stay, and when it grows dark go with us to the Lochias. [10]
Like many Southerners, when it became a question of go or stay, Mr. Brinsmade's unfaltering love for the Union had kept him in. [9]
There were times when I should have gone away if I hadn't made a promise to stay in Ripton. [9]
I'll tell ye what, Mr. Gridley; you get old Dr. Hurlbut to come and see her once a day for a week, and get the young doctor to stay away. [6]
It was at what the soldiers called the Stay Awhile Hospital that he came in living touch again with the life he had left behind. [11]
I needn't tell what it was here, because I knowed it wouldn't stay the way, it was. [5]
I tell you what I'll do: I'll go to Richfield, and stay till snow comes, if you will take a dip with me down into Virginia first. [4]
Beyond Smolensk there were several different roads available for the French, and one would have thought that during their stay of four days they might have learned where the enemy was, might have arranged some more advantageous plan and undertaken something new. [2]
Well, meanwhile, there were people coming to stay at Peppingham, their home. [11]
The qualities that were born in her had to wait for circumstance and opportunity--but they were there: they were there to stay, whether they ever got a chance to fructify or not. [5]
You are alone: well, I will stay with you. [11]
I might as well stay the rest of the afternoon. [9]
They might as well stay here; we can surely protect them. [11]
No, Masse Veneer, we'll both stay in th' of mansion 'n' wait for th' Lord! [6]
We had said we would stay, and we were committed. [5]
Mr. Wilson says we shall have to stay here for a month at least. [14]
The treatment which we experienced at the hands of this generous-hearted people will help more than anything else to make us recollect with pleasure our stay amongst them. [5]
Howbeit, or ever we could stay him, he went on in a loud and well-nigh triumphant voice. [10]
To stay as we are, to refuse to take what is offered us, is to remain between wind and water. [9]
Better stay where we are and fight it out till help comes. [11]
The Model, however, was to stay awhile,--a week, or more,--before they should leave together. [6]
Lady Rosebery, who was kindness itself, would have had us stay and sit down in comfort at the supper-table, after the crowd had thinned, but we were tired with all we had been through, and ordered our carriage. [6]
She said: "It was horribly dangerous, and it could not be necessary to stay in such a place. [5]
When once Caracalla was gone--and it was to be hoped that he would not stay long--no one would ever think again of any biting speech made before his arrival. [10]
As the flask was at Rudyard's lips, Barry Whalen said to Krool, "What do you stay here as--deserter or prisoner? [11]
They felt it was a matter they ought to be able to decide for themselves, but still it was the last evening of Lali's stay in town, and they did not care to take any risk. [11]
But Nance--Nance--Nancy, I want to stay here, here with you; or to take you with me. [11]
If you simply want to enjoy yourselves, stay at this hotel--there is no better place--sit on the piazza, look at the mountains, and watch the world as it comes round. [4]
There was a wait of half an hour at the end of the first act, and I could not trust myself to do it, for I felt that I should desert to stay out. [5]
The doctor joined us, but I noticed that he was anxious, and he did not stay long. [4]
He dined with us twice during his short stay, and was most delightful and agreeable. [6]
He has asked us to stay at King's House, but we have declined. [11]
Here Madame Marie urged Madelinette to stay and sleep, but this she refused to do, if horses could be got to go forward. [11]
The judge insisted upon their answering, and proposed to compel them, but even the prosecution took fright and came to the rescue then, and helped stay the sturdy jurist's revolutionary hand. [5]
Manners came in upon me, and insisted that I should stay for dinner. [9]
We gave them up without an effort at recovering them, and cursed the lying books that said horses would stay by their masters for protection and companionship in a distressful time like ours. [5]
He was looked up to as possessing qualities superhuman in their nature, and so was competent to be the stay of the weak and their defence against the strong. [6]
You haven't given up the idea that he may marry you some day, if you stay here and pretend to have reformed. [9]
If I get up early enough in the morning, or if I am let stay up at night late enough, I see him; but that is not enough--is it, mother? [11]
For our factions, unless you would have me run away and leave the country, I cannot prevent them; because I do make many stay that would else fly away whither. [4]
I'd make you unhappy--I couldn't bear it, I wouldn't stay with you. [9]
If you stay two or three months or longer, you cut it down half, or even more than half. [5]
It got to troubling me so I couldn't rest; I couldn't stay still in one place. [5]
She bore the trial as long as she could; she used pride and resentment against it; but at last she could not bear it, and with Mela's help she wrote a letter, bantering Beaton on his stay in New York, and playfully boasting of Saratoga. [8]
Now in James Towne they were all in combustion, the strongest preparing once more to run away with the Pinnace; which with the hazard of his life, with Sakre falcon and musketshot, Smith forced now the third time to stay or sinke. [4]
When we all took leave my grand-uncle bid Herdegen stay, and Kunz waited on us; but notwithstanding all his merry quips as we went home, not once could we be moved to laughter. [10]
Yes, it was too venomously cold for snow-shovelers or anybody else to stay out long. [5]
Mr. Bronte wrote to urge Charlotte's longer stay at the seaside. [14]
Marion went up to town to stay with Mrs. Townley, and there had to face a good deal of curiosity. [11]
I directed her to tell you to use your own pleasure whether to stay or come, and I did not say it is sickly and that you should on no account come. [7]
I am going to stay, Hovey. [11]
Am I not to stay, and won't you--won't you kiss me, Shiel? [11]
I had resolved to stay, and never more venture country-wards--but the accident has ended that. [5]
Still I had to stay, and listen to other people's rejoicings, because I had no money to get out of the camp with. [5]
I am going to stay with him, and be to him all that he may never have in this world, never--never. [11]
But Wolf preferred to stay with Barbara, that he might plead his cause in person. [10]
It was impossible to stay there another night. [6]
What was there to stay the great event? [11]

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